Revision as of 13:43, 11 July 2014

iptables userspace tools

iptables is the userspace command line tool used to configure the packet filtering engine in the Linux kernel.

Download, build and install:

wget http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/files/iptables-1.4.21.tar.bz2
tar -xjf iptables-1.4.21.tar.bz2
cd iptables-1.4.21
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr
make
make install DESTDIR=/home/export/rootfs

Download pre-built binaries

The link below contains a bzip2 tarball of iptables compiled for ARM:

• iptables-1.4.21-arm-linux-gnueabi.tar.bz2
• Built using :
  • arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1)